overcloy

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verb

To fill beyond satiety.

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Meanings

verbovercloy (third-person singular simple present overcloys, present participle overcloying, simple past and past participle overcloyed)

present singular third person overcloys · participle present overcloying · participle past overcloyed · past overcloyed

  1. datedtransitiveTo fill beyond satiety.

    He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.

    c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I
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    A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.

    c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

Origin

From over- + cloy.

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